Crimes Against Nature

A beautifully-written history of the hidden side of the early conservation movement. It describes the creation of three great National Parks--the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon--and the reactions of the people living on those lands, whose ordinary activities, like hunting, wood-gathering, and fishing, suddenly became crimes against nature.

Karl Jacoby is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.

List of Illustrations

xi

List of Tables

xiii

Preface

xv

Introduction: The Hidden History of American Conservation

1

(10)

PART I. FOREST: THE ADIRONDACKS

The Re-creation of Nature

11

(18)

Public Property and Private Parks

29

(19)

Working-Class Wilderness

48

(33)

PART II. MOUNTAIN: YELLOWSTONE

Nature and Nation

81

(18)

Fort Yellowstone

99

(22)

Modes of Poaching and Production

121

(28)

PART III. DESERT: THE GRAND CANYON

The Havasupai Problem

149

(22)

Farewell Song

171

(22)

Epilogue: Landscapes of Memory and Myth

193

(6)

Chronology of American Conservation

199

(4)

Notes

203

(64)

Bibliography

267

(26)

Index

293

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Crimes Against Nature

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